Timeline for Why is the structure of the US Code so poor? (And would it even be legal to reorganize it?)
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | SlimsGhost | @owhilleke - great point. The fact that a lot of the earliest federal statutes for US are what makes the US Code such an interesting topic for this question, but like you say, certainly not the only example. This also implies a lot of things about the US that make me happy to be a US citizen, although I'm in no way deluded that we did everything right, and sometimes wholeheartedly hate "this or that" about US Code but still don't mind being a citizen. Thanks for the comment. | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 2:29 | comment | added | ohwilleke | Statutory law is almost as sensitive to initial conditions as case law. A significant share of the most litigated federal statutes were adopted in one of the first two or three sessions of Congress after the constitution was adopted. Similarly, the most litigated securities regulation (10b-5) was adopted just a matter of months after the statute authorizing it was adopted in the 1930s and has not been amended since then. This is also true of some key sections of the tax code, and in civil law countries, of language from the original Code Napoleon. | |
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